Bailey, Tracy Swinton

Summary: "An intimate look at America's historically rooted struggle to adequately educate vulnerable children, and a call to action to those in positions of power who are able to open doors of opportunity. You wouldn't guess it by listening to our elected officials, but education is the civil rights issue of our day. At the root of every important problem we face, from mass incarceration to income...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 BAI

Baxley, Traci

Summary: As the global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher. After the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, many also grappled with the responsibility to teach their kids about social justice-- with few resources to guide them. Baxley, a mother of five herself, suggests that parenting is a form of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 BAX
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JPT 649 BAX

Contents: Disc one, The stringband era. Pan American blues -- Muscle Shoals blues (DeFord Bailey) -- Gray Eagle (Taylor's Kentucky Boys) -- G rag (Georgia Yellow Hammers, with Andrew Baxter) -- K.C. railroad blues (Andrew and Jim Baxter) -- Dallas rag (Dallas String Band) -- Bill Cheatem (James Cole String Band) -- Turkey buzzard blues (Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony) -- Corinne Corinna (Charlie McCoy...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1998

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY FRO

Summary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GAN

Summary: Featuring live action and animation, this movie examines the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIR

Gershwin, George

Contents: Disc 1. Swanee (Al Jolson) -- The Yankee doodle blues (Van & Schenck) -- Do it again (Arthur Lange's Orchestra) -- Somebody loves me (Isabelle & Tom Patricola) -- Fascinating rhythm (Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards) -- Oh, lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Tell me more (Alexander Gray) -- Sweet and low-down (Singing Sophomores ; Ed Smalle) -- Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta ; The Russian Art Choir)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GER

Summary: Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. After some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer who also attracts him. From there, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. Eventually Dan, Alice, Anna and Alice's fiancé, Larry, take part in a twisted dance of deceit, guilt...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CLO

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLO

Contents: Guitar blues (Sylvester Weaver) -- Why do you moan? (Bo Weavil Jackson) -- James Alley blues (Richard Rabbit Brown) -- K.C. Railroad blues (Andrew Baxter) -- Traveling coon ; Pick poor Robin clean (Luke Jordan) -- Workin' on the railroad ; Yellow woman blues (Buddy Boy Hawkins) --The fore day blues (Ishman Bracey) -- No job blues (Willard Ramblin' Thomas) -- Down south blues ; Out on Santa-Fe...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Rosa 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES I'M

Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Contents: CD #1: K.C. blues ; Cannon ball blues / (Frank Hutchison) -- Leaving home ; If the river was whiskey / (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Duplin County blues / (Cauley Family) -- Sweet Sarah blues ; Frankie Dean / (Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton) -- A darkey's wail / (Riley Puckett) -- Johnson City blues / (Clarence Green) -- Mistreated blues / (the Carolina Buddies) -- Haunted...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WHI

Summary: Warren Schmidt is about the taste the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans - but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ABO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie About 2003

Summary: Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, 'Respect' is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021

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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RES

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RES

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RES

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RES

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RES

Contents: Off the wall -- The folks who live on the hill -- Love is the sweetest thing -- Strange music -- Baubles, bangles and beads -- Ill wind -- Playin' my hunch.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Argo 1964

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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ JOH

Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PRO

Summary: Wes Anderson brings his dry wit and visual inventiveness to this exquisite caper set amid the old-world splendor of Europe between the World Wars. A poignant ode to friendship, this breathless picaresque is performed with panache by an all-star cast.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GRA

Summary: Nick offers to take Suzanne's kids cross-country in an effort to win her heart. He must survive 24 hours with two kids bent on destroying him. Through all the road-blocks, he impresses not only Suzanne, but himself also.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ar

Summary: The Paris Opera Ballet performs five pieces choreographed by Norbert Schmucki and two by Marius Petipa.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: View Video 2008

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS BAL

Barkley, Callie

Summary: "Amy has never liked being in the spotlight. When all her friends decide to form a team for the Santa Vista Quiz Bowl, Amy's not so sure. She knows she can answer the quiz questions ... but can she do it in front of hundreds of people? Meanwhile, The Critter Club is caring for some chickens who need a home. As the Quiz Bowl approaches, Amy herself starts feeling just a little bit chicken!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Series Critter Barkley 2015

Barkley, Callie

Summary: When Ellie and her friends plan a Halloween party for the Critter club, they realize a bat has gotten trapped inside the barn, so with the help of a wildlife vet the girls help return the bat to its home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Critter Barkley

Smollett, T. (Tobias)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 1988

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM FIC SMO

Contents: Too shy (Kajagoogoo) (3:43) -- Always something there to remind me (Naked Eyes) (3:39) -- Talk talk (remix) (Talk Talk) (3:16) -- Kids in America (Kim Wilde) (3:23) -- Turning Japanese (The Vapors) (3:40) -- The politics of dancing (Re-flex) (3:55) -- 19 (Paul Hardcastle) (3:37) -- Homicide (999) (3:41) -- Romanticide (Combo Audio) (3:08) -- Guilty (Classix Nouveaux) (3:12) -- (Get a) Grip (on...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Records Group North America 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIV

Hodes, Art

Contents: Intro to Angry -- Angry -- Sobbin' blues -- That's a plenty -- Tin roof blues -- Panama -- Clarinet marmalade -- NORK blues -- Sensation -- Ja da -- Real thing -- After you've gone : alternate -- I know that you know : alternate.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Delmark Records 2007

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HOD

Summary: An electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones's bold aesthetic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GRA